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The Radio weblog of Hal Rager

Monday, May 20, 2002

Arthur C. Clarke. "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." [Quotes of the Day] 9:44:07 PM    comment   trackback []

Sir Richard Francis Burton. "Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 9:41:39 PM    comment   trackback []

Stephen Jay Gould, Evolutionary Biologist and Theorist, Dies at 60. Thanks for everything, Dr. Gould. As an aside, I see an expanding vaccum, especially now, after the deaths of Carl Sagan and Gould. Who will speak for science in the popular press? [obit link via garret] "Dr. Gould achieved a fame unprecedented among modern evolutionary biologists. The closest thing to a household name in the field, he became part of mainstream iconography when he was depicted in cartoon form on "The Simpsons." (...) Dr. Gould was born on Sept. 10, 1941 in Queens, the son of Leonard Gould, a court stenographer, and Eleanor Gould, an artist and entrepreneur. Dr. Gould took his first steps toward a career in paleontology as a 5-year-old when he visited the American Museum of Natural History with his father. "I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me," he once wrote." [more] [blivet] 9:33:09 PM    comment   trackback []

Buffelgrass, an "Exotic" Species, is Fueling Wildfires in the Sonoran Desert. [Science Daily] Yet another 'seemed like a good idea at the time' spins into another management and ecological problem. 8:21:05 PM    comment   trackback []

Leo J. Burke. "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." [Quotes of the Day] 8:05:17 PM    comment   trackback []